“Music” Archives

Nearly beatless ambient dub that drift around the listener with nary any resistance.

These dozen songs possess an emotional heft that one doesn’t always associate with the synth-pop genre.

Haunting, dark, epic, and danceable. Recommended for fans of Makeup & Vanity Set and Daft Punk.

Cinematic electronic music, Quaker-influenced synthpop, spacious ambient dub, atmospheric chamber music, and exotic instrumentals.

My latest “Chrindie ‘95” piece looks back on Circle of Dust’s self-titled debut and its place in Christian industrial music’s history.

Without a doubt, the most ambitious mewithoutYou album to date, by any standard, but also the most troubling.

For those times when you just want to lose yourself in some sad, nostalgic, starry-eyed ambience for an hour or so.

Their lush, atmospheric music is still as evocative as ever, even in this short video preview of “Pray For Rain.”

It’s deeply enjoyable, and even a little moving for this fan, to see Slowdive vindicated after all these years.

For all of its artificiality, there’s very little that’s cold, clinical, or merely “academic” about Platform.

This time: Atmospheric darkwave, eerie space rock, poetic post-hardcore, jangly pop, and soulful hip-hop.

In which I wax rhapsodic about the expansive, futuristic “ambient dub” of Paul Dickow.

Even without the inevitable nostalgia, ‘Show’ captures a brilliant performance by a band at their zenith.

One lovely composition full of fragile notes and filigrees followed by another.

Seryn’s much-anticipated and long-awaited sophomore release is bombastic in all the right ways.

The Danish band’s “twee-est” album to date.

The Declining Winter continues to explore shambling, pastoral post-rock territory.

In this edition: Pastoral post-rock, bombastic indie-prog, emotional folk-rock, and elegant guitar instrumentals.

The band’s next full-length, “Pale Horses,” will be released on June 16.

Goto moves beyond typical post-rock aesthetics and climaxes, and opts for something more cinematic and orchestral.